Following the critically praised Stilt, Taiwan director Tsai Yin Chuan again explores the complex dynamics of family in the moving feature Packages from Daddy. Set in a quaint coastal town, the drama gently follows a familys difficult emotional journey when they suddenly lose a member under ungraspable circumstances.
Nine-year-old boy Lan (Xie Fei) returns home from school to the news that his father (Li Li Ren) has passed away. The adults tell him it was a heart attack, but from whispers & rumors, he gathers that his father took his own life. Each struggling with guilt, anger & grief, his mother (Fann Wong) & older sister (Yu Ruo Qing) become estranged, while Lan tries to understand what went wrong. Then one day he receives a package sent by his father before his death. Inside is an antique maritime clock whose second hand has stopped. To understand the message his father left him, Lan tries his hardest to fix the clock.